I tried the "Hard Reset" as follows. Shut down the notebook, remove the AC Adapter, battery & accesories. Hold down the power button for 30 seconds. Plug in the AC Adapter ( leave the battery out for the moment ) and see if the notebook will start.

Re: HP Pavilion DV6 does not start up!

Me too I can not boot up at all even after trying an external monitor nothing shows at all people of hp please help... I also in another thread that people tried turning on with esc + power button at the same time but no success for me I'm very unsure if my laptop will ever recover ...(dv6-2109ax)

Re: HP Pavilion DV6 does not start up!

One more shot; have you tried holding down all of the arrow keys while also attempting to start the laptop? This will force the last good bios active. Make sure that you attempt this without the battery installed but of course plugged in.

Re: HP Pavilion DV6 does not start up!

I successfully did complete recovery of Vista from windows recovery partition.

But now each time I start my computer it seems to be running some sort of configuration, it goes through a boot loop and after the configuration it restarts, then configures, then restarst, and when on the 3rd time the OS loads completely and the desktop appears, the System Preparation Tool window is there.

Tried all options on it (except generalize) but this still happens.

Elsewhere I've seen solutions to it involving stopping WMP Network Service but it did not work in my case.

I think the registry entry below might have something to do with it, but I don't really understand it so I left it alone.

This is very good news! . . . Did you make or have a repair disk? If not, you can order them. Also, it may take 2 or more hours for the images you posted to clear security, so. . . . I would like you to goto the following link and download, scan and install SpeedFan; once done, please run it, open the SMART Tab, drop down to and click your highlighted hard drive and then click run an Indepth online analysis of the hard drive;SpeedFan is very clear and efficient w explanations. Please post back w results. I would like you to do this before doing the following hd scans okay?

After posting a clean bill of health from SpeedFan, the OS Reg can be fixed by doing the following scans:

Please goto the Start Menu, open All Programs, open Accessories, right click the Command Prompt and select 'Run as Administrator'. In to the prompt type the following command and hit enter.

sfc /scannow ( note that there is a space between sfc and the / )

Let the process complete, then type exit and hit enter, then click the Start Menu again, click Computer, left click Local Disc C once to highlight it, right click Local Disc C and select Properties, click the Tools tab and then click the button to 'Check the Drive for Errors'. In the following window make sure both boxes are checked and then click Start. The computer will ask to schedule the check at the next system restart? Click 'Yes." and then restart the notebook

This process can take several hours to complete and cannot be interfered with whatsoever, okay? Once completed the laptop will restart itself.

Also, I have found a very interesting video by Britec09 concerning your laptop's boot issues: